Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels - Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

A nuanced understanding of modernization in nineteenth-century Brazil that demonstrates Brazilian commitment to technological innovation.

List of contents

1. Nineteenth-century modernization in Brazil; 2. The vocabulary of Brazilian modernization; 3. Industrial forests; 4. The most useful of instruments: plows and agricultural innovation; 5. Road-building and railroads: challenges to modernization; 6. Trolleys, railroads, and factories, or civilization and barbarism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Teresa Cribelli holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American History from The Johns Hopkins University. She has published articles and book chapters in the US, Brazil, and the UK. She has also curated an exhibition on the Brazilian Black Movement at the University of Alabama and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. She is a past recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Spencer Baird Fellowship at the Dibner Library of Science and Technology, a Smithsonian Institution Library, in Washington, DC. She is currently an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama and Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

Summary

A nuanced understanding of modernization in nineteenth-century Brazil that demonstrates Brazilian commitment to technological innovation.

Product details

• Authors: Teresa Cribelli, Teresa (University of Alabama) Cribelli, Cribelli Teresa
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781107496651
• ISBN: 978-1-107-49665-1
• No. of pages: 271
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Brazil, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of the Americas, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history